different between scourge vs corruption

English

Etymology

From Old French escorgier (“to whip”), from Vulgar Latin excorrigiare, consisting of ex- (“thoroughly”) + corrigia (“thong, whip”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sk?d?/
  • (US, also) IPA^(key): /sk??d?/

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

scourge (plural scourges)

1. A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

2. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
3. A whip, often of leather.

Translations

Verb

scourge (third-person singular simple present scourges, present participle scourging, simple past and past participle scourged)

1. To strike with a scourge; to flog.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

Translations

See also

• Scourge in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scourge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• scrouge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French corruption, from Latin corrupti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: cor?rup?tion

Noun

corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)

1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
2. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
3. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
   • 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 2, page 154:

     Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.

4. The decomposition of biological matter.
5. The seeking of bribes.
6. (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
7. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

   a corruption of style

   corruption in language

8. (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
9. Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

Translations

Synonyms

• (economics): rent-seeking
• (act of corrupting or making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
• (state of being corrupt or putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
• (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot
• (act of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle): depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery
• (state of being corrupted or debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
• (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening
• (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling
• (departure from what is pure or correct): deterioration, erosion
• (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text): bastardization

Derived terms

• corruption of blood

References

• “corruption” in the Collins English Dictionary
• corruption at OneLook Dictionary Search
• corruption in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French corruption, borrowed from Latin corrupti?, corrupti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?yp.sj??/

Noun

corruption f (plural corruptions)

1. corruption (act of corrupting)
2. corruption (state of being corrupt)
3. corruption (putrefaction)
4. (figuratively) corruption (bribing)

Related terms

Further reading

• “corruption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• croupiront

Old French

Alternative forms

• corrumpcion, corrumption, corrupcion, corruptiun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corrupti?, corrupti?nem.

Noun

corruption f (oblique plural corruptions, nominative singular corruption, nominative plural corruptions)

1. corruption (state of being corrupted)

Related terms

• corrompre

Descendants

• ? English: corruption
• French: corruption